Evolution illuminated : salmon and their relatives / edited by Andrew P. Hendry, Stephen C. Stearns.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hendry, A. P. (Andrew P.), editor.

Stearns, S. C., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salmonidae--Evolution.

Salmonidae.

Fish populations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (521 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text should appeal to investigators in each of the scientific disciplines. It integrates evolutionary biology, ecology, salmonid biology, management and conservation.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction: The Salmonid Contribution to Key Issues in Evolution; 1 Life Histories, Evolution, and Salmonids; 2 The Evolution of Philopatry and Dispersal: Homing versus Straying in Salmonids; 3 To Sea or Not to Sea? Anadromy versus Non-Anadromy in Salmonids; 4 Evolution of Egg Size and Number; 5 Norms of Reaction and Phenotypic Plasticity in Salmonid Life Histories; 6 Ecological Theory of Adaptive Radiation: An Empirical Assessment from Coregonine Fishes (Salmoniformes); 7 From Macro- to Micro-Evolution: Tempo and Mode in Salmonid Evolution

8 Evolution in Mixed Company: Evolutionary Inferences from Studies of Natural Hybridization in Salmonidae9 Salmonid Breeding Systems; 10 Salmonid Insights into Effective Population Size; 11 Evolution of Chinook Salmon Life History under Size-Selective Harvest; 12 Conservation Units and Preserving Diversity; 13 Toward Evolutionary Management: Lessons from Salmonids; Appendix 1: Straying Rates of Anadromous Salmonids; Appendix 2: Genetic Differentiation among Conspecific Salmonid Populations at Nuclear DNA Loci; Appendix 3: Differences between Anadromous and Non-Anadromous Salmonids; References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770090-X

1-280-53151-7

0-19-534383-2

1-4337-0105-7

OCLC:

437175169